Visual Arts

Duddell’s is pleased to present ‘Sundowners’, our summer exhibition curated by Hong Kong-based artist Tang Kwok-hin. We invited Tang, partnering up with four collaborators – a writer, a graphic designer, a cellist and a film director to discuss the current situation and daily lives with us.

The gate began to get crowded; the shadow at my feet told the time of the banquet, and the dust from the carpet evoked vague memories—it’s that day.

Handwriting, images, objects, music, and laughter.

Daylight faded along the edge of the mountain, and the darkness began to percolate; the light was gone. They say night is colourless, dark, and empty. Ideas flitted around, and people just couldn’t figure out the reason for the darkness. What blackened the sky? Daylight probably comes from the fireball overhead.

Less dark during the day, less light at night. There is always the cliché of light in the dark. The intensity and tension of a past duality eventually make up the ordinary perspective of the whole spectrum. Have you been observing life in this way? This duality has been transformed into a hybrid that exists in every moment, with no more absolute standard of civilisation. Do the isolated souls choose to conceal or desperately capture their wandering emotions?

Rub your eyes and become conscious; any combination of scenes remains striking, fascinating, or anxious.

What colour is the sky? The chatter of white and the silence of black always keep me from thinking of orange. I have been meditating in the orange evening lately; it gives me a feeling of being distant from language but close to poetry, or nightmares. One needs such a time to awaken the textures and messages of the senses on these absurd days. The beast of civilisation, within day-to-day paradigm shifts, knows that a certain part has to re-encounter or return to the past, the world of physical space, the rules and the spiritual memories of someone as a man. Say goodbye or escape from it.